Streamline Your Project Intake Process (1 PDU)

Does your organization have a reliable way to intake project ideas? Do you struggle with how to determine whether project requests align with business strategy? How do you know if the costs will outweigh the benefits?

Join us for a webinar, where we will explore these topics and more. We’ll discuss:

•Providing a standardized idea Input form, making it easier to evaluate potential projects
•How to determine whether ideas align with strategic objectives
•How to determine relative priority across ideas
•The best way to evaluate costs and benefits of high priority ideas
•How to use Idea portfolios for what-if scenarios
•Converting ideas to projects
•Using workflows for Approvals, Action Items and Governance

After discussing these best practices, we’ll use CA PPM show how they can be implemented as a real world, practical solution!

Register today!

This event is approved for 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU) credit.

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To cope with business demand, servers must be built – which is a highly manual process that often lacks standardization. Join this webinar with CA Technologies’ internal IT team, as they discuss how CA Process Automation enables them to automation core infrastructure tasks, including server deployment, maintenance and retirement – and saved their team 20 hours a day of manual work.

You will learn:
How CA Technologies’ internal IT team saves time automating triage and remediation
How workflows can be easily adapted to detect issues quickly
How new servers are now deployed within a matter of minutes with standardized builds and security protocols

Organizations are frequently tempted to modify and adapt their Agile approaches as they become more experienced. As they then try and expand Agile use into other areas, or as they look for ways to integrate Agile and traditional project execution approaches they realize they are facing some unintended consequences. Join Andy Jordan, ProjectManagement.com as he discusses how best to look at options for enhancing or modifying Agile at your organization and how to ensure you aren’t causing future problems.

When disaster strikes, your number one priority is fast recovery. But trying to determine the root cause of the problem can be a time consuming, manual process. Join this webinar with CA Technologies’ internal IT team, as they discuss how automation has helped them save time with disaster recovery through consistent, predicable processes – and enabled them to get up and running again seamlessly.

You will learn:
How to save money and time from outages – even when the worst happens
•How to shift your focus from manual problem solving to fast recovery through automation and repeatable processes
•How keeping an audit trail prevented the team from making the same mistakes in the future

Agile is here to stay, waterfall’s not going away anytime soon, and more and more organizations are creating hybrid project execution models that combine both. What does that mean at the portfolio level? If you’re struggling to manage a portfolio of different project approaches, if you have executives looking for common reporting metrics, or if you have frustrated project teams, this webinar is for you. Join PPM expert Andy Jordan as he explains:
•Value based reporting that ignores the project execution approach
•The importance of flexibility in portfolio planning and delivery
•The need to create an environment that supports both Agile and waterfall
•Some simple steps you can take today to improve hybrid portfolios
The future of portfolio management will include both Agile and waterfall, unless you’ve mastered them both you need to attend this webinar.

As many IT professionals know, on-boarding and off-boarding employees takes more than just a conversation with HR. There are dozens of tasks to do before during, and after, that require both time and budget. Join this webinar with CA Technologies’ internal IT team, as they discuss how they use CA Process Automation to automate their own on-boarding and off-boarding processes, remove manual errors, and speed up the delivery of services.

You will learn:
How a 12,000 employee company streamlines on-boarding and off-boarding
How to simplify integration and save time through automation of tasks
How to ensure employees get on-boarded efficiently so they can provide value faster, and off-boarded quickly and securely

In many organizations today—such as government, healthcare and banking—the pressure to comply with mandatory regulations feels in conflict with the pressure to move fast, release often and stay open to change. Even as more development teams adopt agile practices, regulatory agencies seem to prefer documentation over working software, templates over discussion, and governance over adaptiveness. So what's a high-compliance organization to do?
One of the most often heard comments we hear when we talk agile in a highly-regulated environment is that it simply can't be done. If this is common thinking in your organization, you will not want to miss this engaging webinar.
Laureen Knudsen will show you how to make agile audits easy. With more than 14 years of experience in regulated environments, Laureen designed a lightweight, auditable, product lifecycle allowing highly-regulated organizations to maintain regulatory compliance while reaping the benefits of agile methodologies.
During this webinar, you’ll learn:
•How to meet compliance requirements while shifting to agile practices
•How to effectively use CA Agile Central project data to pass audits quickly and easily
•How to streamline your product lifecycle
Who doesn’t want an easier process when it comes to audits? Following the webinar we’ll leave time for Q&A, so bring your questions!

Agile is increasingly becoming a factor at the strategic level. There are a number of different frameworks for scaling Agile and they are starting to touch on the realm of traditional portfolio management. Does that mean portfolio management has to change? Does strategic Agile have to adapt? Are we going to end up with multiple portfolios? In this engaging webinar portfolio management expert Andy Jordan breaks through some of the confusion and offers guidance on:
•How to incorporate more strategic Agile concepts into portfolio management
•The importance of differentiating strategic Agile from Agile for strategic projects (they are different)
•Minimizing disruption and maximizing commitment with strategic Agile
•Leveraging Agile in all forms of portfolio management
This webinar promises to challenge some of the Agile stereotypes that exist as Andy offers innovative ideas and approaches that promise to give all organizations a chance to improve portfolio success. Don’t miss out, register today.

Paul Soper, Director of IT Project Management at LabCorp, and Walter Angus, Senior Consultant at CA

For healthcare companies, managing priorities, projects and resources can be a critical factor in getting to market faster, improving patient outcomes and even saving lives. For LabCorp, working with Rego Consulting to develop an innovative new approach to IT Resource Management—using CA PPM—has powerfully improved their IT Organization’s ability to respond to business needs in delivering solutions. Join LabCorp’s Paul Soper, along with Rob Greca from Rego Consulting and Walter Angus from CA Technologies, to learn how LabCorp utilized data they were already collecting to develop IT labor capacity and supply/demand balancing without creating new business processes. This BrightTalk webinar will be Thursday, December 1 1:00 PM Eastern.

Join Andy Jordan, ProjectManagement.com as he provides a guide to building a foundation for success before your Agile transformation actually begins. In this presentation, he will address the importance of executive buy-in, setting realistic expectations and aggressive but reasonable growth plans, communication, and the ability to measure progress appropriately. By attending this session, you will learn the importance of a commitment to organizational evolution and the recognition that things can take time - Agile isn’t a silver bullet that makes all problems disappear immediately.

The Agile Product Owner is typically the project’s key stakeholder. They have a deep understanding of how products are used and the value they bring to both customers and the business.

Join Yvonne Kish, one of our awesome Agile Coaches, to learn more about the Product Owner Role. During this webinar, we’ll dig into:
•The definition of the Product Owner
•How the Product Owner role fits within an agile team
•What a Product Owner actually does

We feel sorry for Andy Jordan, the presenter of this webinar. In his consulting practice he deals with many organizations looking to take project execution to the strategic level, but who think they can succeed with desktop project management tools, spreadsheets and sticky notes. Now Andy shares some war stories and provides practical advice on how to:
•Recognize when you need new tools
•Determine what kinds of tools you need
•Build a tool suite environment that supports your business today and in the future
•Use tools as an enabler for better performance
This webinar promises a few laughs, but also a few sobering moments when you likely recognize your organization’s mistakes. Don’t become one of Andy’s war stories, sign up today.

Agile employees outperform so-called “hard workers” by nearly 20 percent, and research from Korn Ferry found that companies with more agile executives had 25 percent higher profit margins than their peers. Given the pervasiveness of agile in software development circles, and the pervasiveness of software as the backbone for every business today, it’s no surprise that agile tenets have pervaded employee expectations about the workplace. It’s why some of our agile coaches encourage customers to use employee happiness as a productivity metric.

Agile cultures are engaging cultures, and engaging cultures produce engaged employees. Are you ready to get going? We can help. Join us on Thursday, October 27, 10am PST / 1pm ET for this engaging webinar.

Organizations are increasingly looking to expand Agile to a greater number of projects and to increasingly diverse business areas. The process and tools that served them well for just a handful of software development projects may well struggle to scale vertically and horizontally and organizations need solutions. Join Andy Jordan, ProjectManagement.com as he discusses the need to evolve Agile approaches in different areas and at different scales.

You’re already using CA Project & Portfolio Management to manage your innovation lifecycle and make better strategic decisions. What if you could take that up a notch by adopting agile and connecting your development work to your company’s most important business initiatives?

Join our experts on Wednesday, 19 October at 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST for an insightful webinar, “The Secret to Making PPM Work (with Agile).” You’ll discover how to:

- Prioritize and select the right investments
- Coordinate agile teams to deliver on those investments
- Provide visibility into a fast, predictable, high-quality delivery engine.

Join the CA BrightTALK Channel to learn how Agile solutions and services, and Project & Portfolio Management (Agile Management) can help companies plan, execute, and deliver more work, more rapidly. Our industry experts and featured analysts will delve into topics that matter most to PPM and Agile professionals and practitioners and will provide practical advice and tips on how you can gain business agility and use it to your advantage in the App Economy.

Some sessions are approved for Project Management Institute (PMI) Personal Development Credits (PDUs).